 However, despite initially being threatened with retaliation by four of Long's servants if they proceeded, the commissioners went to the house and demanded admittance.Long's wife Susanna called down to them from a window that her husband was abroad and that they would enter "at their peril".Susanna's brother later asserted that his sister was "soe affrighted" by the deportment of the men that she languished, and in a short time died.